onStage Pittsburgh’s Sharon Eberson interviews the directors of the August Wilson American Century Cycle Experience – Terrence Spivey, Ashley Southers and Mark Clayton Southers, founder and producing artistic director of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company – on the set of Two Trains Running, at Madison Art Center. The PPTC venue also will host Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, in a new cabaret space. The company’s annual outdoor production at the August Wilson House is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences.
Video and venue images: Sharon Eberson, onStage Pittsburgh
Edited by Tanner Knapp of the Point Park University Center for Media Innovation,
for the Pittsburgh Media Partnership
SNEAK PEEK AT MADISON ARTS CENTER CABARET

(Images: Sharon Eberson)
TICKETS AND DETAILS
Visit https://www.pghplaywrights.org/ for tickets to all three plays.
- August 9-30, 2025: Two Trains Running, directed by Mark Clayton Southers at Madison Arts Center in the Carter Woodson Redwood Theater, 3401 Milwaukee Street, Upper Hill District.
- August 8-September 14, 2025: Fences, directed by Stephen McKinley Henderson, at the August Wilson House outdoor theater, 1727 Bedford Avenue, Lower Hill District.
- August 15-24th, 2025: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by Ashley Southers, at the new Madison Arts Center’s cabaret.
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